That tracks actually.
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I'd be succesful in governing countries and making them prosperous and free as fuck without being conquered.
Oh, and I also farm.
I have 30 hours in house flipper 2 since getting it 5 days ago. I wish I could live in the homes I make
What I get from simulation video games is that if I didn't have to worry about working to live and the daily grind of life, I'd work to get real-world experience doing stuff I may like.
If video games determined our real world behavior,
I'd be a robot witnessing the fall of humanity, whose crime was free will
Don't know if that translates to a job necessarily
I guess I'm an immortal autocrat with foresight and pattern recognition good enough to be the global economy by the 16th century.
I play too much 4x.
If games determined my behavior, I would practically be Machiavelli.
A lot of Crusader Kings or assassin's Creed?
(I think in one of AC games you're actually doing missions for Machiavelli himself.)
No; I just do anything and everything I can to further my own strength and fuck everyone else because they're just NPCs.
Fair enough.
When given the option "spare him, or kill him", one has to ask "is he worth XP?"
I'd be just at bad at poker as I am now, I think
I'd be an expert race car driver, or really good at parkour.
This just made me imagine a sport that contains both and it would be awesome, call it Guerrilla Valet.
In my case the bodies of my enemies would fuel my armies of the undead leaving a trail of blood and destruction behind me. If the first boss I encounter doesn't take me out.
I would sell so many organs
I'd be a min-maxing hoarder that never used stuff. In all honestly, I should probably try to be more like that minus the hoarding.
I cant afford a spaceship though :(
Speak for yourself; I am a VERY violent gamer! There's a mission in Cyberpunk that really gets my blood boiling. These two guys are into human trafficking and shooting pornography of their sexual exploits. The father of a little boy they abused and filmed themselves abusing and murdering hires you to find them and kill them. Well, they don't just shoot porn, they shoot brain dances, which are like interactive VR videos where you play a role. And they "shoot" while "in" the brain dance... so when you find them, they're in their rigs and unaware you're there. You can shoot them. You can wake them up and shoot them. You can shoot one and listen to the other mourn the one you shot (they're father and son). Or you can leave them for the police. I always wake them up, shoot the son, let the father mourn him for a few minutes, then pull out a sword and take his head off. Can't do anything about the people who do that for real, so I do it in a video game.
Though I just finished my third run through Night City, this time on the Xbox. I think I'm done for a while (it is a VERY long game and I insist on doing ALL the quests... my game time was something like 250 hours). I recently bought it on Mac (it was just ported) so I will go through it again on my computer with the keyboard and mouse. Sure, it looks like ass on the Mac (the whole computer, storage and all is one chip, there's no dedicated graphics card) but it plays!
I'm gonna do the Mass Effect trilogy next. Just got the remastered trilogy for $6 on Xbox. I've started the first one a couple times but never finished it. I keep hearing it's a masterpiece. This time I'm gonna get through the first one, and then do the second one. I expect them to take a long time.
I also play Animal Crossing. As of last year, that's my main game. I've got everything unlocked, I'm just trying to finish the museum (without cheating). I got both the tarantula and the scorpion, so I never need to run around at night with my net out (which is what makes them attack, the only "scary" thing in Animal Crossing). They do sell for 8,000 Bells (the in-game currency) each, which is nice, but I make so much more than that every day, and I could make ~130,000 every 3 days harvesting all my fruit. Wasps is 15k (5 x 3,000 each), the money rock is 16.1k, I don't need the hassle of catching the high value bugs (plus they're rare). I've paid off all my loans to Tom Nook. The new update coming out in January will add two more storage upgrades, but I have 5.5M Bells banked, so I think I'm good and I don't need more storage anyway (but buying it might unlock more fun stuff). They showed us more than they told us about, so there's probably features they didn't even show. Definitely a good time to book a deserted island getaway!
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